Cancer

Clinical insights, innovative procedures, and tips for helping to prevent and treat cancer

  • Skin cancer prevention: protect your skin all year round

    Skin cancer prevention: protect your skin all year round

    Skin cancer is the most common cancer in the United States. Learn more about this preventable cancer and the latest developments in research and treatment. Listen to our podcast to learn more.

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  • Day in the life: Our Breast Cancer Express brings care to our communities

    Day in the life: Our Breast Cancer Express brings care to our communities

    Ride along with the caregivers who provide mobile breast cancer screenings to patients across Western Washington. Read more.

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  • Five years after a multiple myeloma diagnosis and treatment, this Swedish patient is living her best life—and helping others do the same.

    Five years after a multiple myeloma diagnosis and treatment, this Swedish patient is living her best life—and helping others do the same.

    Barbara Travers helps others find their footing as they move through the realities of cancer diagnosis and treatment. Watch the short video and learn more.

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  • Understanding prostate cancer: risks, symptoms and prevention

    Understanding prostate cancer: risks, symptoms and prevention

    Providence Swedish is home to some of the nation's foremost experts and latest treatments for prostate cancer. The condition affects some 300,000 people in the United States annually. Learn more.

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  • With the Cyberknife S7, Providence Swedish offers the latest in robotic radiotherapy

    With the Cyberknife S7, Providence Swedish offers the latest in robotic radiotherapy

    The platform was introduced at our First Hill campus this week and offers precision, individualized treatment for many types of cancer, benign tumors and vascular conditions.

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  • Swedish caregivers helped this musician get back in tune after cancer treatment

    Swedish caregivers helped this musician get back in tune after cancer treatment

    When guitarist Ron lost his fingernails to chemotherapy, experts at the Providence Swedish Cancer Institute worked with him to find a way back to his playing and his passion. Watch the video.

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  • Hope for patients with glioblastoma

    Hope for patients with glioblastoma

    Patients glioblastoma brain tumors have not benefited much from recent treatment advances. Yet. Because Swedish experts are working to change that.

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  • Research at Swedish is saving lives. Your support will help it continue.

    Research at Swedish is saving lives. Your support will help it continue.

    Collaboration, innovation and commitment to our patients drive the development of revolutionary medicine. Philanthropy helps make it possible.

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  • The link between cancer and alcohol

    The link between cancer and alcohol

    Learn about the connection between alcohol and cancer and ways to reduce or quit alcohol consumption for better health.

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  • The future of cancer care is in your genes

    The future of cancer care is in your genes

    Learn why a Providence Swedish cancer geneticist believes today’s genetics research is paving the way for a reduced burden from cancer tomorrow.

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  • Our new MedSPA offers exceptional care with natural results

    Our new MedSPA offers exceptional care with natural results

    Watch the short video and learn more about the range of services available at our new, state-of-the-art facility.

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  • Evan Ong, M.D., named Doctor of the Year by Puget Sound Business Journal

    Evan Ong, M.D., named Doctor of the Year by Puget Sound Business Journal

    He led the way in helping Swedish’s First Hill campus become the first hospital on the West Coast to begin offering a new treatment called histotripsy.

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  • Advances in surgical technology improve precision and patient outcomes

    Advances in surgical technology improve precision and patient outcomes

    These new technologies to treat liver tumors, enlarged prostate and breast tumors were unimaginable not that long ago. Watch this short video to learn more.

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  • Did you know that colon cancer is on the rise among younger adults? Screening is key to prevention.

    Did you know that colon cancer is on the rise among younger adults? Screening is key to prevention.

    Those with a family history should get tested earlier. Watch this short video for the facts about colonoscopies and colon cancer screening from a Swedish expert. Learn more.

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  • Providence Swedish is transforming cancer care and research

    Providence Swedish is transforming cancer care and research

    Learn more about our commitment to the best care for every patient and how we're advancing our understanding of cancer. Watch the video.

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  • Healing through harmony

    Healing through harmony

    Music therapy at the Providence Swedish Cancer Institute offers patients with cancer a soothing respite. Watch the short video to learn more.

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  • To honor the love of his life, a gift of gratitude

    To honor the love of his life, a gift of gratitude

    After losing his wife Sabine to sarcoma, Jim Quitsland made a generous gift to Swedish that honors her and supports cancer care and research.

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  • Cáncer de pulmón: la detección temprana es fundamental para recibir un tratamiento exitoso

    Cáncer de pulmón: la detección temprana es fundamental para recibir un tratamiento exitoso

    El cáncer de pulmón es la principal causa de muerte oncológica en Estados Unidos; la detección temprana y el tratamiento pueden aumentar la supervivencia de manera significativa.

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  • If you're a quitter today, you're a winner

    If you're a quitter today, you're a winner

    Make today the day you quit smoking and tobacco use. Help is available. Learn more from a Providence Swedish lung cancer expert.

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  • Regular lung cancer screenings could save your life

    Regular lung cancer screenings could save your life

    A Providence Swedish expert explains why the tests are essential for former smokers.

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